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"Adam, I didn't want to come here. I am
not going to stay here. As soon as I can I will go away."

"Oh, nonsense." He laughed. "You're like a child away from home for the first time. You'll love it once you get used to it and the baby is born.
[…] We all get over it. So don't say silly things like that."

"It's not a silly thing."

All these people are evil Cathy come with me honey

“Perhaps we can’t understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind had not probed the black water?”

“I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a sys-tem. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.”

“…There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused.”

This is actually the most based anti-capitalism take of all time YES convenience is nice, but what about what we lose due to convenience? Is the cost worth the gain?

“…and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass produc-tion, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger.

[cont]

“There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good. It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper

[cont]

He went into his room, flung off his clothes, and got into bed. He grunted and turned, trying to get comfortable, and then he opened his eyes. Cathy was standing by his bed.

“What do you want?"

"What do you think? Move over a little."

"Where's Adam?"

"He drank my sleeping medicine by mistake. Move over a little." He breathed harshly. "I already been with a whore."

fuck offfffff bro

"It's like getting up. I don't want to get up and I don't want to stay down. I don't want to stay here and I don't want to go away."

"You make me itch," said Charles.

"Think about it, Charles. You like it here?"

"Yes."

"And you want to live here all your life?"

"Yes."

"Jesus, I wish I had it that easy. What do you suppose is the matter with me?”

Restlessness is a disease I cannot be cured from

"What do you know about me? Do you think I can't read every rotten thought you ever had? Want me to tell you? You wonder where a nice girl like me learned tricks. I’ll tell you. I learned them in cribs—you hear?—cribs. I've worked in places you never even heard of—four years. Sailors brought me little tricks from Port Said. I know every nerve in your lousy body and I can use them."

Cathy u the freakiest oat

“I don't believe he stole any money. I believe in the war he did just what he said he did and was just where he said he was."

"But the proof-how about the discharge?"

"You haven't any proof that he stole. You just made that up because you don't know where the money came from."

"His army papers-"

"They could be wrong," Adam said. "I believe they are wrong. I believe in my father."

are we joking rn